Agreed, it would be better if Apache controlled or managed this directly. I think making such a change is just a matter of opening a new issue <https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/issues/new> on the Homebrew issue tracker. I believe that's how Spark made it in there in the first place--it was just a user contribution.
Nick On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Matei Zaharia <matei.zaha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Interesting, does anyone know the people over there who set it up? It > would be good if Apache itself could publish packages there, though I’m not > sure what’s involved. Since Spark just depends on Java and Python it should > be easy for us to update. > > Matei > > On Jun 18, 2014, at 1:37 PM, Nick Chammas <nicholas.cham...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > OS X / Homebrew users, > > It looks like you can now download Spark simply by doing: > > brew install apache-spark > > I’m new to Homebrew, so I’m not too sure how people are intended to use > this. I’m guessing this would just be a convenient way to get the latest > release onto your workstation, and from there use spark-ec2 to launch > clusters. > > Anyway, just a cool thing to point out. > > Nick > > > ------------------------------ > View this message in context: Spark is now available via Homebrew > <http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/Spark-is-now-available-via-Homebrew-tp7856.html> > Sent from the Apache Spark User List mailing list archive > <http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/> at Nabble.com. > > >
